Recent Arrivals from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

New York: Macmillan, 1916. First Edition. Fine. A Fine, sharp-cornered copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue cloth with the front board and spine lettered and lined in gilt and wearing the SCARCE TO RARE dust jacket, making this one of the only two jackets known to us. The jacket shows… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing in a Very Good dust jacket. The volume's front board is lettered and decorated in gilt and the spine is lettered in gilt. The book shows typical toning to the boards… Read more about this item

Geneva, 1583. Hardcover. Very good to Very Good +. CALVIN: We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown. An About Very Good or better copy (which had been in Poor… Read more about this item

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good +. A Very Good or better copy of the first edition of this notable work by C. S. Lewis who was all of a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. Lewis held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford, and Magdalen College,… Read more about this item

London and Vancouver: Bloomsbury and Raincoast Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. An overall Very Good + copy of the first Canadian edition, first printing (with a gap between the spine head and the page block due to the large page block's weight) in the Publisher's illustrated binding in a Very Good dust jacket with a tape remnant… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A Fine copy of the first edition printing, in a Near Fine (for this volume) dust jacket. The original red cloth binding's front board and spine are lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine ends show light pushing and mild rubbing, and each board's… Read more about this item

The Nonesuch Press. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An about Very Good copy of this famed work from an edition consisting of 1,050 numbered copies printed by the Pelican Press on Arnold Unbleached Hand-Made Paper of which this is Copy 238. The volume is bound in quarter brown buckram and paper-covered boards showing marking and general wear. Per litcharts [dot]… Read more about this item

London: The Adelphi, July, 1934. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good/very good. A set of three SCARCE monthly issues of the "Adelphi", a monthly magazine published in London, England, these being the issues for August, 1933, October, 1933, and July, 1934, each bound in the Publisher's original yellow wrappers and each containing writing cited to Eric Blair, the writer who would… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing (being a bit askew and showing some edgewear along with a wound and some glossy spots to the front board) in the Publisher's original green cloth with white lettering and decoration, in an about Fine example of the original… Read more about this item

The Golden Hind Press Inc,, 1933. Hardcover. Very good. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection bound in the Publisher's original red cloth with the paper label affixed to the upper spine panel with an unguarded frontispiece depicting the author and being an enjoyable work by this great and humorous thinker and social critic.… Read more about this item

London, 1878. Cardboard covers. Near fine. A Near Fine or better copy of "Kafir Land" written by Anthony Trollope and set in South Africa, apparrently excerpted from Volume 23 of the Fortnightly Review, a monthly periodical of Literature founded by Trollope with others in 1865. Trollope was, as best we cam determine, was the only eminent Victorian to visit all… Read more about this item

Raleigh, NC: William B. Smith & Company, June 6, 1866. First Edition. Wrappers rebound in boards. Very good. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing from a Confederate-State Publisher issued shortly after the Civil War [which began on April 12, 1861 [when the Confederate army began the Battle of Fort Sumter in South Carolina, just over a… Read more about this item

Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co., 1876. [No Edition Stated]. Wrappers. Good. A Good copy of this exceedingly scarce Play by George Melville Baker (copyright 1866) in its ORIGINAL WRAPPERS showing general marking, creasing, wear, soiling, tearing, and staining with scattered pencil marks to the leaves, copies of which Play are RARE TO THE MARKET. Per Wikipedia: "George Melville Baker… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1886. Hardcover. Very Good to Very Good +. A Very Good to Very Good + and somewhat askew copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original mustard yellow cloth with the front board illustrated with a spider in a web and with oak tree branch and leaves also in black, and… Read more about this item

New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $75. NOW $35. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (slight push to the spine tail), in a fine, bright, unfaded dust jacket), being a set of Essays on Modern Poetry by one of the modern eras great Poets. Paz… Read more about this item

Leipsig: Karl Baedeker, 1893. Eleventh Revised Edition. [ONE HARDCOVER; ONE FLEXIBLE]. Very Good + to Near Fine; Very Good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $125. NOW $55. A Very Good + or better copy of the Eleventh Revised Edition of Baedeker's guide for Central Italy and Rome, the Second installment of Baedeker's three… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Fair. A Very Good + copy of the first American Edition, First Printing of "Briton and Boer: Both Sides of the South African Question", this being the first edition in book form (having been taken from its first appearance The American Review). This is a very good copy in… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near Very Good. A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's RARE DUST JACKET. The binding shows little wear and the gilt to the front board and spine are bright. The closed page block's top edge is also in… Read more about this item

Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1832. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good. A Very Good set of these two Volumes of the Quarterly Review, showing general wear and some foxing, the first volume being published for January 1832 and the second being published for March 1832 with Volume XCV containing Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han by Lieutenant… Read more about this item

London: Virtue and Co., Strahan, 1868, 1869, 1870. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A complete set of the First Six Volumes of St. Pauls Magazine beginning October,1867 through and including September, 1870, with each issue having been edited by Anthony Trollope. Trollope was the Magazine's founding Editor and these six volumes include the text and… Read more about this item